Elliot Tower
Visiting Researcher at School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh
Newton, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolElliot Tower is a software engineer with 8 years of experience applying machine learning, data engineering, and production-grade software practices to real-world problems. He leads open-source RL infrastructure work at Farama Foundation, where he managed and released major versions of PettingZoo and Shimmy, coordinated across 50+ repositories, and authored dozens of PRs driving ecosystem compatibility. With an MS in Computer Science (data science) and published research in NLP, vision, and RL, he bridges cutting-edge research and stable tooling—having implemented GNN- and transformer-based models in academic and industry projects. He has delivered end-to-end data pipelines and analytics on AWS and shipped full-stack features for mobile apps, showing strong DevOps and product instincts. Beyond engineering, Elliot brings unusual cross-disciplinary experience: five years as a professional eSports competitor and a career as a freelance photographer, skills that inform his teamwork, creativity, and product-facing communication. Based in Newton, MA, he is passionate about open source and building reproducible, well-documented systems that accelerate ML research adoption.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Github Skills (200)
parallel10
python10
multi-agent-reinforcement-learning10
toolbox10
operation10
gymnasium10
metadata10
datasets10
hyperparameter-optimization10
deep-learning10
ray10
optimization10
c5110
llm-inference10
api10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
elliottower/PettingZoo
Jan 2023 - Jan 2024
A standard API for multi-agent reinforcement learning environments, with popular reference environments and related utilities
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 292 pushes in 1 year
elliottower/Shimmy
Mar 2023 - Jul 2023
An API conversion tool for popular external reinforcement learning environments
Contributions:1 PR, 176 pushes, 44 branches in 4 months
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